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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3232 Registered: 05-2005 |
Inspired by Joe, maybe this thread will ooze the same amount of popularity as my last thread, great outros! Well, in my humble abode these are a few bands/artists who qualify for best looking band in the world today, right now: Associates - Billy mac and Alan Rankine. Alan Rankine esp i always thought looked like an actor, great bone structure and dark handsome good looks, way back when... Throwing Muses, the first incarnation, with Donnelly and Abong. I think Kristin oozed good lookingness...still does today... The Pale Fountains in 1984. Japan circa '82. Pixies - circa '88 The Wolfhounds circa '89 Orange Juice and Josef K. Circa '81. Cave circa '90 The Clash, circa '77 Massive ATtack circa 'now. Monochrome set and The Smiths. TV on the radio. This is ridic, stop! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 659 Registered: 07-2006 |
defo japan circa polaroids, onwards. pet shop boys circa 90-91 sonic youth. still look great! my bloody valentine prince and the revolution radiohead circa the bends depeche mode circa 86-90 psychocandy-era mary chain manics circa the holy bible the replacements up until 87 or so suede 92-95 yazoo and obviously a whole host of girlgroups that i wont bore you with as it's too easy and i don't want to kill this potentially great thread too soon... ....but the very first incarnation of the sugababes that no one paid attention to and sunk without a trace looked incredible. hot, lazy teen chavettes! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 594 Registered: 01-2006 |
The Cramps - A Date With Elvis era Neil Young & Crazyhorse - Tonight's The Night era | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 595 Registered: 01-2006 |
Re NY & Crazyhorse Tonight's The Night era....pure ragged glory. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 660 Registered: 07-2006 |
i missed your call on the associates spence! fourth drawer down is one my absolute favourite sleeves ever. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 290 Registered: 10-2008 |
the rolling stones, although they were maybe more sexy than good looking. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 940 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Sugarcubes - Never noticed the lads in the band, but those 2 girls, oooooh. The Byrds 65-67 - So very '60's, the clothes were were pure Carnaby St. Bunnymen - Original incarnation, even on the grey album cover. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2044 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Rolling Stones in 1965/1966 were incomparable as a visual presence. Ditto their covers. Nothing will ever exceed December's Children for its hint of late-night dirty smoky danger. Too bad the odds and sods album inside doesn't live up to the cover. I suppose most of it is down to Andrew Oldham who was a genius when it came to image. I give good marks to the band with the tall guy with funny eyebrows and long face, and the Amazon and the blokey sober-looking dude, especially when they cross-dressed! And it still worked when they inducted the dandy. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1659 Registered: 10-2004 |
At the risk of repeating some mentioned above, here's my list: Jesus & Mary Chain circa Pscyhocandy - I don't think any band has ever looked cooler than this. VU circa debut album, there's a semi-popular photo of them playing live from this era with Reed playing an electric semi-hollow body, and it was that photo that convinced me that semi-hollow bodies trump EVERY OTHER electric guitar in existence in terms of coolness. The Cramps - Okay, maybe the Cramps looked cooler than JAMC (I've always had a crush on Poison Ivy) The Go-Betweens circa 84-85. That photo on the Man 'o Sand 7" might be the coolest band photo ever taken of anyone. Ever. Felt - Cherry Red era - Oh, that hair!!! Definitely agree with Japan circa 80-82 Birthday Party + 80s-era Bad Seeds Orange Juice - Postcard era (Josef K, too) Aztec Camera - High Land & Postcard era Love - circa first three albums 80s Bunnymen Life-era Cardigans REM - circa Murmur Spence, agreed about the Smiths, but only when Marr's hair was shaggier. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3235 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, true re smiths, though there were moments like this when I thought they were cool I watched this on the night it was aired. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQwFWvjg8 qw | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1521 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stereolab, circa 1993. Lush Slowdive My Bloody Valentine Saint Entienne (Sarah Cracknell!!!) Echo and the Bunnymen, 1980-84 The Dream Syndicate, circa 1982 Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels The Byrds, circa 1965-66 The Allman Brothers Band, circa 1970-71 Jefferson Airplane, circa 1967-69. Let's Active, circa 1982-83 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, circa 1988 Buffalo Springfield Throwing Muses Jesus & Mary Chain Velocity Girl | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2923 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rolling Stones about 1966. Gram Parsons in his Nudie suit (about 1969 I think?). R.E.M. about 1985. Sonic Youth in 1988. Robert Forster in 1996, in his canary yellow suit in Dublin. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in 2003. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1665 Registered: 10-2004 |
Actually, I might have to revise my best looking band ever vote to Attila: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2cHgZqc1Ko8/R0 EmNL1_GAI/AAAAAAAAA5c/TReiQ0JE9zk/s400/a ttila.jpg At the very least, it's the best album cover I've seen in a while. ;) | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 661 Registered: 07-2006 |
jerry...i was going to say lips like sugar-era bunnymen. whilst the album itself is kinda tosh, they looked brilliant. i thought lush looked pretty incredible too michael. especially around the time of split (94?) when myki had "that" hair. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3236 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig's timelines are superb! Joe ye love ye goth looks dude;) dontcha!? The Cure '79-'80 | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1666 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm sorry, but in my humble opinion, Sonic Youth *never* looked particularly good. Lush looked great, indeed, particularly after mega-hunk Phil King joined. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 662 Registered: 07-2006 |
are you kidding me jeff?!?!? i think they're a veritable lava lamp, in terms of my own fixation with their aesthetic anyway. was phil the drummer? one of them suicided out the back of myki's house. was that the same spunk on the back of the hypocrite single? i mean it's awful either way... everyone looks good in black spence! especially if they're got the hair and the snarl to accompany it. plus i intentionally left out all of my fave girlgroups out of sheer consideration! but if you must know... all saints, girls aloud, bananarama circa 84.... *puts a plug in it* | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 211 Registered: 05-2005 |
For me Sonic Youth has a strong image. Don't know why I've never liked their music. Like the Go-Betweens, they've got the timeless look. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 598 Registered: 01-2006 |
Luna's look improved a lot when they added Britta Phillips. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3239 Registered: 05-2005 |
no joe phil king is a fave of jeff's and mine, he was in loads o bands, from biff bang pow to felt to jamc to lush. i once met the lush gals in birmingham in my lunch hour whilst working at a design agncy, i went bak after lunch proclaiming i had never seen such beautiful women in all my life!!! i think lush wree playing edwards no 8, i played her too supporting ahouse, when there ws 8 in my band! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3241 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Weather prophets on the cover of mayflower! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 941 Registered: 08-2004 |
VU & Nico - Shades, indoors, pretentious... moi! The Stooges - Jimmy was a sex bomb before he turned into a raisin. Love - '66 & beyond For pure stage presence Johnny Cash. Agreed Joe. Lush were well named weren't they? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 459 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'll go (with Jeff) for the Velvets circa Warhol's Factory up there at the top. Those shades and that attitude. And Nico. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2931 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw one of the gorgeous girls from Lush sitting on the grass at a festival in Cork in 1995. She was holding hands with her boyfriend who was chubby and not-so-handsome. I wanted to shake his hand for giving hope to us all. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 663 Registered: 07-2006 |
i always thought the breeders looked pretty neast...especially the "safari" lineup with tanya AND josephine! |